5 poetic affirmations for re-centering love
Let’s face it, this summer, these last few years, okay fine– this life is filled with peaks and valleys. One minute we’re embracing hot girl summer, the next we’re reopening our Canadian citizenship internet search… Rhythmic poetry, like music, helps me in these moments to stop my “whirlpool of a mind” and flow with the natural current of the Earth. These days, fear can feel like the default given the stories we hear on a rolling basis, so it is important that we intentionally disrupt those patterns and replace them with thoughts centered on love.
You are what you eat and this applies to the words you feed your spirit.
I’m sharing a few of mine from my book Good Girl : sound bites from an intimate revolution, but I encourage you to write your own, write them out in big bold markers and put them around your home, car, or as the background of your phone. Just make sure they’re somewhere you can easily see them and devour some consistent spiritual nourishment.
Enjoy!
Nectar
No longer the flower
But also the bee
I’m getting good
At nourishing me
Begin
Crawl out
from that place you’ve been hiding
where scarcity and lack line the walls
walk towards this celestial madness
and catch all the love that will fall
Home
Home is a place
that exists beyond space
it sings through our bodies
in the theater of grace
Spell
These are the words
this is the verse
this is the love
to shatter my curse
This is the poem
this is the bell
this is the light
to shake me from hell
This is the hook
this is the tell
this is the light
that whispers a spell
this is the story
this is the verse
this is the moment
my love will disperse
this is the book
this is the verse
this is the birth
of a new universe
Love
Envelop me like the
sun on the budding flower
I’ll catch you like water
with leaves stretched wide
seep into my roots
and call me to rise
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